
Twine is a Web application that applied the common semantic model, based on the fact that human experts are expensive, and users on Twine can provide valuable search and data information.
On Twine, what they do is to provide a semantic Web environment whereby a user is given a profile page, and the ability to social bookmark any link or URL address as he/she like, and Twine will do the rest with its own semantic analysis.
Interestingly, Twine can help users in creating a data information library, discover all the bookmarks that they want to find out, but couldn’t achieve it by one’s own effort. With Twine, it will grouping all the interest things, stuff in an organized way, and thus, we’ll realize the real relationships of these things with our lives. But expect there is a huge volume of data information out there on the Web, it’s always impossible for us to expect Twine will perform well in categorization, classification and tagging automatically on all the data users enter to the site, but more advance their semantic technology evolve, the more it will understand human language, the perception on human towards language or computer code.
After you signing up to Twine, you can meet other users with similar interests, access to the data information collected by them via groups, etc. There are three main features offered by Twine: discover information that matter to users, collect and share bookmarks, and finally, receive recommendations based on interests.
In order to better understand a user’s interest, Twine has provided a “Add To Twine” bookmarklet (drag it to the browser’s toolbar) that enable users to directly add a Web page they like onto their “My Items” of their profile pages. The another way is to email your favorite Web pages through your own personal email address. Also, the Web pages you bookmarked are private, only if you purposely create your own public Twine, and add the Web pages you like to the public Twine, the bookmarks will be appeared as public in both “My Items” and public Twine.
The core of semantic technologies is to find and expose content. To achieve this aim, Twine also allowed users to explore “Top 100 Twines”, and “Top 100 Members.”
To know more about Twine, it is a project of Radar Networks: a startup that based in San Francisco.